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Bonobos are the only known primate, humans included, that don't kill each other

Bonobo evolution reveals bonding and group cohesion in response to threats, favoring paths to finding peace instead of ...

Bonobos are the only primates that don’t kill their own but unite when facing death threats

Bonobo chimpanzees are unique among primates because they do not kill other bonobos. … They still showed increased alertness ...

Chimpanzees vs bonobos: Understanding genetics, behaviour, and conservation of our closest ape relatives

Chimpanzees and bonobos are among the closest living relatives of humans. They share more than 98% of our DNA, highlighting ...

Can animals read? Not in the human way.

Because animals have a limited capability of understanding human language, they cannot “read” the way humans do. How do ...

Chimp Sounds Trigger a Strange Brain Signal in Humans

Human brains still react to chimp voices, hinting at a deep evolutionary link in how we recognize sound.
News Medical

Bonobos may be more closely linked to anatomy of human ancestors, study finds

A new study examining the muscular system of bonobos provides firsthand evidence that the rare great ape species may be more closely linked, anatomically, to human ancestors than common chimpanzees.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

The Top Human Evolution Discoveries of 2025, From the Intriguing Neanderthal Diet to the Oldest Western European Face Fossil

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...
Mongabay

Bonobos keep track of groupmates even when they can’t see them, study finds

Kanzi, a bonobo celebrated for his intelligence, died in March this year. A recently published study adds to his long list of cognitive abilities: he was able to track the location of people familiar ...